A Little Girl in Old Chicago

Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Examples include vandue and vendue , Cahoky and Cahooky , infare and infair , and Pettingil and Pettengill.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
THE LITTLE GIRL SERIES
A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD CHICAGO
BY AMANDA M. DOUGLAS
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1904
Copyright, 1904, By Dodd, Mead & Company Published September, 1904

It is one of the compensations of Providence that after the storm and stress of active life is through, one can go back to the beautiful world of memory and live over the earlier joys with a delight not experienced in youth.
So the time I first saw the Little Girl is one of the pictures that line the halls of remembrance, softened, and it may be rendered more beautiful, by the intervening years, and love.